• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.21-22
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• 2005

Partially-depleted Silicon on insulator metal-oxide-semiconductor field- effect transistors (PD-SOI MOSFETs) with Silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer is investigated. This structure uses SiGe layer to reduce the kink effect in the floating body region near the bottom channel/buried oxide interface. Among many design parameters influencing the performance of the device, Ge composition is presented most predominant effects, simulation results show that kink effect is reduced with increase the Ge composition. Because the bandgap of SiGe layer is reduced at higher Ge composition, the hole current between body and SiGe layer is enhanced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.356-356
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• 2013

Monolithic 3D-IC는 현대 집적회로에서 interconnect로 인해 발생되는 여러 문제들을 해결하기 위해 새롭게 제시되고 있는 기술적 개념으로 구현 시 하위 소자 및 interconnet들에 영향을 주지 않는 저온공정이 필수적이다. 특히 germanium (Ge)은 낮은 녹는점 및 높은 캐리어 이동도 덕분에 3D-IC 구현 시 상위 소자의 channel 물질에 적합한 것으로 알려져 있다. 최근 이러한 Ge을 결정화하기 위해 solid phase crystallization (SPC), metal induced crystallization (MIC), laser annealing과 같은 결정화 방법들이 보고되고 있다. 현재까지 SPC 방법에 의해 얻어진 poly-Ge의 도핑농도 및 이동도와 같은 전기적 특성에 대한 분석은 수행된 바 있으나 3D-IC 공정에 적용이 가능한 MIC 기술을 통해 얻어진 poly Ge 필름에 대한 전기적 특성분석은 부족한 상황이다. 본 연구는 SPC 뿐만 아니라 MIC 방법을 통해 ${\alpha}$-Ge를 결정화시키고 얻어진 poly-Ge 필름의 전기적 특성을 XRD 및 hall effect measurement를 통해 분석하였다. 특히 일반적으로 Ge 내에서 p-type dopant로 동작을 하는 defect과 n-type dopant인 phosphorus 관계를 고려하여 여러 온도에서 SPC 및 MIC에 의해 얻어진 phosphorus doped poly-Ge 필름들의 전기적 특성을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.280-281
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• 2011

We fabricated the devices of TFT type with the amorphous chalcogenide channel. A single device consists of a Pt source and drain, a Ti glue layer and a GeSe chalcogenide channel layer on SiO2/Si substrate which worked as the gate. We confirmed the drain current with variations of gate bias and channel size. The I-V curves of the switching device are shown in Fig. 1. The channel of the device always contains amorphous state, but can be programmed into two states with different threshold voltages (Vth). In each state, the device shows a normal Ovonic switching behavior. Below Vth (OFF state), the current is low, but once the biasing voltage is greater than Vth (ON state), the current increases dramatically and the ON-OFF ratio is about 4 order. Based on the experiments, we contained the conclusion that the gate voltage can enhance the drain current, and the electric field by the drain voltage affects the amorphous-amorphous transition. The switching device always contains the amorphous state and never exhibits the Ohmic behavior of the crystalline state.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2010

Ge is one of the attractive channel materials for the next generation high speed metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) due to its higher carrier mobility than Si. But the absence of a chemically stable thermal oxide has been the main obstacle hindering the use of Ge channels in MOS devices. Especially, the fabrication of gate oxide on Ge with high quality interface is essential requirement. In this study, $HfO_xN_y$ thin films were prepared by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition on Ge substrate. The nitrogen was incorporated in situ during PE-ALD by using the mixture of nitrogen and oxygen plasma as a reactant. The effects of nitrogen to oxygen gas ratio were studied focusing on the improvements on the electrical and interface properties. When the nitrogen to oxygen gas flow ratio was 1, we obtained good quality with 10% EOT reduction. Additional analysis techniques including X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and high resolution transmission electron microscopy were used for chemical and microstructural analysis.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1543-1548
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• 2005

Two isostructural new alkaline earth germanium nitrides, $Sr_6Ge_5N_2\;and\;Ba_6Ge_5N_2$, were obtained as single crystals from constituent elements in molten Na. They both crystallize in space group $P_{mmn}$ (No. 59) with a = 4.0007(8), b = 17.954(3), c = 9.089(2) $\AA$, Z = 2, and a = 4.1620(2), b = 18.841(1), c = 9.6116(5) $\AA$, Z = 2, for $Sr_6Ge_5N_2\;and\;Ba_6Ge_5N_2$, respectively. Their crystal structure contains features for both Zintl and nitride phases: zigzag anionic chain of $_{\infty}Ge^{2-}$, and dumbbell-shaped bent anion of ${GeN_2}^{4-}$. Counter cations of Sr or Ba wrap these anionic units in a channel-like arrangement. Unlike in other germanium nitrides, bond lengths of both Ge-N arms of the ${GeN_2}^{4-}$, are same in $Sr_6Ge_5N_2\;and\;Ba_6Ge_5N_2$.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.210-214
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• 2016

In this paper, the decrease in the contact resistance of Ni germanide/Ge contact was studied as a function of the thickness of the antimony (Sb) interlayer for high performance Ge MOSFETs. Sb layers with various thickness of 2, 5, 8 and 12 nm were deposited by RF-Magnetron sputter on n-type Ge on Si wafers, followed by in situ deposition of 15nm-thick Ni film. The contact resistance of samples with the Sb interlayer was lower than that of the reference sample without the Sb interlayer. We found that the Sb interlayer can lower the contact resistance of Ni germanide/Ge contact but the reduction of contact resistance becomes saturated as the Sb interlayer thickness increases. The proposed method is useful for high performance n-channel Ge MOSFETs.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.64.2-64.2
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• 2011

Recently, Silicon Germanium (SiGe) alloys have been received considerable attention for their great potentials in advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. Especially, microcrystalline SiGe is a good channel material for thin film transistor due to its advantages such as narrow and variable band gap and process compatibility with Si based integrated circuits. In this work, microcrystalline silicon-germanium films (${\mu}c$-SiGe) were deposited by DC/RF magnetron co-sputtering method using Si and Ge target on Corning glass substrates. The film composition was controlled by changing DC and RF powers applied to each target. The substrate temperatures were changed from $100^{\circ}C$ to $450^{\circ}C$. The microstructure of the thin films was analyzed by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy. The analysis results showed that the crystallinity of the films enhances with increasing Ge mole fraction. Also, crystallization temperature was reduced to $300^{\circ}C$ with $H_2$ dilution. Hall measurements indicated that the electrical properties were improved by Ge alloying.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.289.1-289.1
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• 2016

Germanium (Ge) with higher carrier mobility and a lower crystallization temperature has been considered as the channel material of thin-film transistors for display applications. Various methods were studied for crystallizaion of poly-Ge from amorphous Ge at low temperature. Especially Metal induced crystalliazation (MIC) process was widely studied because low process cost. In this paper, we investigate copper diffusion process of different thick (70 nm, 350 nm) poly-Ge film obtained by MIC process at various temperatures (250, 300, and $350^{\circ}C$) through atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman spectroscopy, and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) measurement. Crystallization completeness and grain size was similar in all the conditions. Copper diffusion profile of 370 nm poly-Ge film show simirly results regardless of process temperature. However, copper diffusion profile of 70 nm poly-Ge film show different results by process temperature.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.7 s.337
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• pp.1-4
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• 2005

A four-channel photoreceiver ways have been realized in a 0.8$\mu$m Si/SiGe HBT technology for the applications of parallel optical interconnects. The receiver array includes four-channel transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) and p-i-n photodiodes, where the TIAs exploit a common-emitter (CE) input configuration. Measured results demonstrate that the four-channel CE TIA array provides 3.9GHz bandwidth, 62dB$\Omega$ transimpedance gain, 7.5pA/sqrt(Hz) average noise current spectral density, and less than -25dB crosstalk between adjacent channels with 40mW power dissipation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.491-495
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• 2007

This paper has demonstrated the electrical properties of SiGe pMOSFETs fabricated on both bulk-Si and PD SOI substrates. Two principal merits, the mobility increase in strained-SiGe channel and the parasitic capacitance reduction of SOI isolation, resulted in improvements in device performance. It was observed that the SiGe PD SOI could alleviate the floating body effect, and consequently DIBL was as low as 10 mV/V. The cut-off frequency of device fabricated on PD SOI substrate was roughly doubled in comparison with SiGe bulk: from 6.7 GHz to 11.3 GHz. These experimental result suggests that the SiGe PD SOI pMOSFET is a promising option to drive CMOS to enhance performance with its increased operation frequency for high speed and low noise applications.